Three of the following students are using metacognitive strategies while using the Internet.
Which one is not necessarily using a metacognitive strategy?
a.Aiden chooses appropriate key words to search for new concepts.
b.Billy actively evaluates the misinformation he is receiving from certain websites.
c.Carole often changes her search criteria as she learns new information.
d.Doug has multiple websites active at one time.
Jenny hears her second grade teacher often tell the class that soda is bad for your health
and that everyone should drink water. However, every afternoon Jenny sees her teacher
drink a soda. Based information regarding behaviors that are learned through modeling,
which beverage is Jenny most likely to drink:
a.Water, an authority figure’s words are more influential than their actions.
b.Neither, children only imitate other children.
c.Soda, people imitate other people’s actions more than their words.
d.Water, second graders always imitate to their teachers.
Which of the following students is most clearly engaging in adaptive expertise?
a.Alex loves to ride his bike to school and gets many other children to join him.
b.Julie is very good at chemistry. She often receives the highest grade in her class and has
started tutoring other students in chemistry.
c.Marisa struggles with math, however she is very good at English.
d.Paul always excelled at math in school. He now works as a construction worker and used
arithmetic everyday to calculate measurements.
When Lily is presented with money after many different behaviors (e.g., cleaning her
room, getting a good grade or eating her vegetables) she is more likely to perform each of
those behaviors. The fact that this single reinforcer (i.e., money) can increase many of
Lily’s behaviors is explained by:
a.Classical conditioning
b.Instrumental conditioning
c.Transituational generality
d.Secondary reinforcement theory
Three of the following are disadvantages of taxonomies and standards described in the
textbook. Which of the following is not a disadvantage?
a.They often do not incorporate developmental research, and therefore are not reliably
sensitive to the skills of different age groups.
b.They can miss goals that lie outside of a specific content area.
c.They are often lengthy lists that are not realistic goals for a single school.
d.They do not take into account students’ different abilities.
Three of the following are true statements regarding problem based learning? Which of the
following is not?
a.New skills and knowledge are acquired while solving complex and real-world problems.
b.Problem based learning is not effective in higher education (i.e. undergraduate and
graduate levels); it is only effective in K-12 settings.
c.Problem based learning can be highly motivating to students.
d.The complex problems used in problem based learning can impose very heavy cognitive
loads.
Three of the following are beliefs of epistemology. Which of the following is not a relevant
belief to the study of epistemology?
a.The source of knowledge
b.The nature of learning ability
c.The speed of learning
d.The capacity of memory
Mrs. Sloan wanted to use behaviorist approaches in her classroom. She decided to test the
students many times throughout her course. Which assessment practice is she employing?
a.Backward design
b.Formative assessment
c.Summative assessment
d.High stakes tests
The use of instructional objectives in instruction has several advantages. Which of the
following is not a benefit that objectives provide?
a.They help a teacher choose appropriate instructional methods and homework
assignments.
b.They facilitate student achievement even in areas not covered by the objectives.
c.They aid teachers in effectively communicate and coordinating what they are aiming to
accomplish.
d.They facilitate the evaluation of student achievement.
Which of the following examples best illustrates a child using effortful control.
a.June knows she should not talk out of turn in class, but when she gets excited she cannot
help herself.
b.Ben does not like the other kids in his class and often teases them during recces.
c.Allison likes to laugh when other kids get in trouble in class, however she knows this
will hurt their feelings, therefore she holds her tongue and does not laugh.
d.Logan loves hanging out with friends after school and gets angry when he looses the
privilege to do so.
Choose the teacher below who is most likely to promote a sense of autonomy in his or her
students.
a.Ms. Andre provides several possible organizational schemes that students can use, if they
wish, to organize their oral presentations.
b.Mr. Brooks reminds his students that the deadline for their research paper is a week from
Friday.
c.Mr. Chambers praises his students for continuing to work quietly when he was called
away from the classroom.
d.Ms. Dacono reminds her students, “You should know your multiplication tables by now.”
Jenny is three years old. Which of the following beliefs about epistemology is she most
likely to hold?
a.Authoritative; information she learns only comes from authority figures
b.Realist; information she gains from other people is truth
c.Absolutist; information she hears is either true of false
d.Multiplist; conflicting information she learns from different people can all be true
Mrs. Berk gives extra credit to each of his students who pick up 5 pieces of trash in the
classroom before the bell rings at the end of the day. Despite the fact that most of the
students pick up 5 pieces of trash before the end of the day, some students never participate
in the cleanup. Which of the following statements explains why some students do not
participate in the cleanup at the end of the day.
a.The classroom context is a context in which only some children are reinforced.
b.One reinforcer does not reinforce behavior for every learner.
c.Some students will never produce socially desirable behaviors.
d.When a group of students are reinforced together, the reinforced behavior is acquired
more slowly than if the students are reinforced individually.